Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. EARLY AMERICA, 1600-1800 Gender Frontiers Kathleen M. Brown, The Anglo-Indian Gender Frontier Jennifer L. Morgan, "Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder": Male Travelers, Female Bodies In Brief: Childbirth Practices among North American Indigenous Women (by Ann Marie Plane) Gender and Labor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Three Inventories, Three Households Mary Beth Norton, An Indentured Servant Identifies as "Both Man and Woeman": Jamestown, 1629 Judith A. Carney, Toiling in the Carolina Rice Fields Founding Documents: Black and White Women Defined in Law Virginia Establishes a Double Standard in Tax Law Virginia''s 1662 Law Defining Race-Based Enslavement A Massachusetts Minister''s Slave Marriage Vows English Jurist William Blackstone Defines Coverture Mary Collin''s Probate Inventory An Early Divorce Law and Sarah Welsher''s Petition Disorderly Women Carol F. Karlsen, Inheriting Women and Witchcraft Accusations Document The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637 Two Eighteenth-Century Lives in Brief Esther Wheelwright Becomes an Ursuline Nun (by Ann M. Little) Abigail Stoneman, Entrepreneur (by Ellen Hartigan-O''Connor) Revolutionary Legacies Documents Philadelphia Women Raise Money Door to Door Sarah Osborn, Woman of the Army Deborah Sampson Gannett, Soldier Grace Growden Galloway, Loyalist Rachel Wells, "I have Don as much to Carrey on the War as maney ." Linda K.

Kerber, Republican Mothers and Women Citizens Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemings-Jefferson Treaty: Paris, 1789 PART II. MANY FRONTIERS, 1800-1880 Workplaces Jeanne Boydston, The Pastoralization of Housework Sharon Block, Sexual Coercion in the Early Republic Document Eliza R. Hemmingway and Sarah Bagley Testify on Working Conditions in Early Factories, 1845 Slaveowning Households Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, Mistresses in the Making Thavolia Glymph, Women in Slavery: The Gender of Violence Document Maria Perkins, Writes to Her Husband on the Eve of Being Sold, 1852 Intimacy, Birth Control, and Abortion Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, The Female World of Love and Ritual James C. Mohr, The Abortion Landscape, 1800-1880 Activists and Reform Gerda Lerner, The Meanings of Seneca Falls Rose Stremlau, "I Know What an Indian Woman Can Do": Sarah Winnemucca Writes about the Northern Paiute Frontier Documents The Grimk''e Sisters Talk Truth to Power Keziah Kendall Protests Coverture Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 Married Women''s Property Acts, New York State, 1848 and 1860 Sojourner Truth''s Visiting Card, 1864 Nineteenth-Century Frontiers Miroslava Ch''avez-Garc''ia, The Murder Trial of Guadeloupe Trujillo: Los Angeles, 1843 In Brief: Maria Mitchell, Astronomer and College Professor (by Helen Knight et al.) Photo Essay: Women in Public Civil War and Its Aftermaths Stephanie McCurry, Women Numerous and Armed: Politics and Policy on the Confederate Home Front Leslie A. Schwalm, Enslaved Mothers: Claiming Freedom and Risking Death Tera W. Hunter, Reconstruction and the Meanings of Freedom Documents A.

S. Hitchcock, I Would Treat Them as Vagabonds Reconstruction Amendments, 1865, 1868, 1870 Supreme Court Test Cases: Bradwell v. Illinois and Minor v. Happersett PART III. MODERN AMERICA EMERGES, 1880-1945 Gender and the Jim Crow South Glenda Gilmore, Forging Interracial Links in the Jim Crow South Documents Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors (with an introduction by Patricia A. Schechter) Mary McLeod Bethune, "How the Bethune-Cookman College Campus Started" Women in the West Peggy Pascoe, Ophelia Paquet, a Tillamook of Oregon, Challenges Miscegenation Laws Judy Yung, Unbound Feet: From China to San Francisco''s Chinatown Document Zitk''ala-S''a, The Americanization of Native American Children Change Agents Kathryn Kish Sklar, Florence Kelley and Women''s Activism in the Progressive Era Annelise Orleck, From the Russian Pale to Labor Organizing in New York City Documents Pauline Newman, Life in the Garment District Crystal Eastman, Now We Can Begin Suffrage and Citizenship Leila J. Rupp, Sexuality and Politics in the Early Twentieth-Century International Women''s Movement Documents Chinese Exclusion: The Page Act and Its Aftermath Mackenzie v.

Hare, 1915 Equal Suffrage (Nineteenth) Amendment, 1920 Jazz Age Opportunities and Limits Vicki L. Ruiz, The Flapper and the Chaperone: Mexican American Teenagers in the Southwest Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting Girls: The Emerging Ideal of Slenderness Linda Gordon, Women and the KKK in the 1920s Document Equal Rights Amendment, 1921, 1923 Photo Essay: Adorning the Body Great Depression Leslie J. Reagan, When Abortion Was a Crime Blanche Wiesen Cook, Storms on Every Front: Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Documents Comstock Act Emma Goldman''s Mug Shot, 1901 Margaret Sanger, Contraception for all Women Pauli Murray and the Making of Jane Crow Women and War Beth Bailey and David Farber, The Women of Hotel Street during World War II Alice Kessler-Harris, Rethinking Women''s Work during World War II Document The Forced Removal of Japanese Americans PART IV. A TRANSFORMING WORLD, 1945-2018 Women''s Cold War Activism Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Origins of Feminism in Cold War America Michelle M. Nickerson, Politically Desperate Housewives Documents Betty Friedan, "The Problem That Has No Name" Phyllis Schlafly, Difference, Not Equality Sexuality at Midcentury Susan K. Cahn, Lesbians and Homophobia in U.S. Women''s Sports Joanne Meyerowitz, Christine Jorgensen and the Story of How Sex Changed Women and Movements against Injustice Danielle L.

McGuire, Sexual Violence and the Long Civil Rights Movement In Brief: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Making of a Feminist Advocate (by Jane Sherron DeHart) Documents Hoyt v. Florida, 1961, and Taylor v. Louisiana, 1975 Civil Rights Act, Title VII, 1964 Loving v. Virginia, 1967 Reinvigorated Feminisms Heather M. Stur, "We Weren''t Called Soldiers": WACs and Nurses in Vietnam Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon, The Women''s Liberation Movement Documents Poster, "Girls Say Yes to Boys Who Say No" Equal Rights Amendment, 1972 Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972 Frontiero v. Richardson, 1973 Carol Sanger, "The Law from Roe Forward" In Brief: Women''s Experience with Abortion before and after Roe v. Wade (by Karissa Haugeberg) Claims for Dignity Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Dom''esticas Demand Dignity Ashraf Zahedi, Muslim American Women after 9/11 In Brief: How History Matters in Obergefell v. Hodges, 2015 (by Nancy F.

Cott) Documents Meritor Savings Bank v. Mechelle Vinson et al., 1986 Anita Hill''s Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1991 Violence Against Women Act, 1994 Women''s March, 2017.